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Home Dictionary Name: frigate builtFrigate built
Built like a frigate with a raised quarter deck and forecastle...
Frigate
Originally a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars The French about 1650 transferred the name to larger vessels and by 1750 it had been appropriated for a class of war vessels intermediate between corvettes and ships of the line Frigates from about 1750 to 1850 had one full battery deck and often a spar deck with a lighter battery They carried sometimes as many as fifty guns After the application of steam to navigation steam frigates of largely increased size and power were built and formed the main part of the navies of the world till about 1870 when the introduction of ironclads superseded them...
Brick-built
Brick-built, means brick-built in the ordinary sense, and does not include a house built partly of brick and partly of timber, with some parts of the exterior composed of lath and plaster, and without partly walls, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 4(2), 4th Edn., Para 335, p. 299; Powel v. Double, (1832), Sugden's Venders and Purchases, 14th Edn., p. 29....
Jerry built
Built hastily and of bad materials as jerry built houses...
Built
Shape build form of structure as the built of a ship...
Clincher built
See Clinker built...
Cloud built
Built of or in the clouds airy unsubstantial imaginary...
Sea built
Built at in or by the sea...
Convoy
To accompany for protection either by sea or land to attend for protection to escort as a frigate convoys a merchantman...
Corvet
A war vessel ranking next below a frigate and having usually only one tier of guns called in the United States navy a sloop of war...
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